Tennessee Williams. New anniversary of his birth

Tennessee Williams He was born on this day in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was a famous American playwright, actor, poet, and novelist, who also won the Pulitzer Prize twice. Most of his works like A Streetcar Named Desire o The cat on the tin roof they have been made into a movie and continue to be performed successfully. In his memory I select some fragments.

Tennessee Williams

It was called Thomas Lanier-Williams III. The "Tennessee" thing his schoolmates gave him because of his southern accent and the origin of his family. Be part of the Holy Trinity of North American Playwrights with Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. He won Pulitzer theater twice: once in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire, and the second in 1955 by The cat on the tin roof.

And it adds up and goes on with awards from the New York Theater Criticism for The glass zoo y The night of the iguana. In addition to a Tony Award to the best work for The rose tattoo. But without a doubt, if the work of Tennessee Williams is so well known for its unforgettable film adaptations.

His life was as full of chiaroscuro as those he created and reflected in his theater. The scandal, the guilt, the loneliness, the curse ... Nothing was alien to him. These are brief snippets of what he wrote.

Suddenly last summer

  • "The lives of all people, what are they but traces of rubble ... every day more rubble ... more rubble ... long, very long trails of rubble that nothing can clean more than death?"
  • «I cannot change the truth! I am not God. I'm not even sure he could. I do not believe that God himself can change the truth.
  • Someone once wrote: "We are all children in a vast kindergarten, trying to form the name of God with letters from a puzzle that is wrong."
  • "Yes, we all need each other, and that is what we consider love ... And not needing each other is ... hatred."

A Streetcar Named Desire

  • «The goal of his life, since his adolescence, is pleasure with women, which he gives and receives, not with indulgent lightness but with the proud power of a well-plumaged rooster in a hen pen. From this satisfied fullness derive all the secondary cards of his life: friendship with men, rude and direct humor, love of good food and good drink, gambling, his car, his radio, everything he owns and carries. hence the proud stamp of the sower. He values ​​women at first glance, classifies them sexually and gives them the right smile.
  • "Oh, you can't describe the one you love."
  • "There is nothing further from death than desire."

The cat on the tin roof

  • «It was so beautiful knowing that you loved me… The most beautiful thing in the world for me. If I believed that you would never make love to me again, I would plunge into my heart the longest and sharpest knife I could find. "
  • Do you know what the greatest victory of a cat on a hot tin roof is? Resist in it as long as possible, until the last second.

BRICK —I don't like being told what to do. Have you already forgotten the conditions that I accepted so that we could continue living together?

MARGARET —You don't live with me, Brick. You only share the same cage.

The glass zoo

  • "That's how it is. All pretty girls are cheats and men hope they are. '
  • Oh, being in love has made me a new man! The power of love is something tremendous! Love is something that… transforms the whole world ».
  • "You are the only young man I know who does not know that the future becomes the present, the present in the past and the past is an eternal regret if one does not plan in advance."

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